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“So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it.”

Giving Littles Found Winning Stars Justice Goes On Blessing Fairs Gold Praise Wine Esteem Dust Merit Flavor Good Will Tokens Proclaiming Enticing

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”

Home Hands Eye Justice Honor Gold Shining Righteous Mansions

Author:Aeschylus

“Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.”

“We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.”

“The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.”

Mind Soul Reason Body Light Justice Gold Universal Absolutes Medicine Supreme Practicals Mathematical Combination Quintessence

Book:Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

“Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.”

Doe Strong Justice Sin Break Arms Clothes Gold Vices Plates Straws Robes Rags Pierce Gowns

Book:The Great Comedies and Tragedies

Source: The Great Comedies and Tragedies

“The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all.”

Use Government Justice Common Liberty Gold Libertarian Libertarianism Invoke

Author:Leonard Read

“Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.”

Stills Culture Easy Justice Liberty Diversity Gold Social Justice Fetters

Author:Mary Astell

“They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.”

Men Should Made Values Justice Wonder Diversity Gold Social Justice Useless

Book:Utopia

Source: Utopia

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”